From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b553d2c02a2df59f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:34:58 +0100 From: Georg Bauhaus User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: limited types (Was: Records that could be arrays) References: <1cwl2r5h594du$.1q4kglbpb2bma.dlg@40tude.net> <10ovc4gxk6wka.gttjb2v0fbcq$.dlg@40tude.net> <13yslifejxwuq.15rip8gh2aufj.dlg@40tude.net> In-Reply-To: <13yslifejxwuq.15rip8gh2aufj.dlg@40tude.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <44031ace$0$13779$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> Organization: Arcor NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Feb 2006 16:29:18 MET NNTP-Posting-Host: 8915ef90.newsread4.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=7O?R^J0VEES8f4>W>BJ_OP:ejgIfPPldTjW\KbG]kaMXQc4L4[MA2TPZVc;]foh6LVhP3YJKgE\j\ZWMQ X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3184 Date: 2006-02-27T16:29:18+01:00 List-Id: Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:07:00 GMT, Matthew Heaney wrote: >> Write your algorithms in terms of sequences of elements instead of containers, >> and you can forget about containers. > > No, thanks. If I wished that sort of untyped design, there would be C++ and > dynamically typed languages at my disposal. I don't want untyped > containers. I would keep boxes for apples and barrels for herrings in > separate rooms. What kind of operations on containers do you have in mind, as opposed to operations focussing on their elements? -- Georg